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If you are a registered club with the USATT, you can get tournament tables after a major tournament at a huge discount from Butterfly or Joola. Nebraska isn't easily close to anywhere, but it might be worth visiting a major tournament to make the purchase and accept the shipping bill. Would...

I switched to the rubber just before the Butterfly teams as well. I beat a 2100+ legend, and had many good matches that could have gone either way. I switched to faster blade after the Teams to take advantage of improved control and I have since then beaten a 2200+ I hadn't been able to beat...

Here is my first Karis review after using it for 2-3 weeks and playing some of my best TT with it. This is a solid rubber - I don't think a huge Tenergy rubber fan will like it, and I am not sure how well it compares to Airoc Astro M and S, which I suspect are closely related. In fact, when I...

Sorry to hear - that stuff sucks. I play through mine and I can only wonder what time bombs I have set for myself as I get older.

It's a large commitment. Giving up backhand looping limits your options unless you want to play a specific style of using control and placement to generate attacking opportunities. I would say before you do this, get the TTEdge app and practice reading serves. After doing that, have your...

I'm now fairly certain you are trolling.

I think for rubber design, building a rubber from scratch via a chemical process is different from selecting and specifying a pimple geometry and topsheet thickness. The rubber in terms of physical appearance and composition is clearly a variant of Airoc or Airoc Astro. What could be different...

I find it interesting that you trust his expertise on anything. Yes, a lot of it is promotional hype, but I doubt he is saying anything that he hasn't discussed with good players. For me, as much as I like Karis, and I use it largely because I prefer harder topsheets, the one thing that leaves...

The funny thing is that I really believe that you are capable of better. It's just that you keep respecting the kinds of balls that you should not respect because you don't want to go all out with your swing. You keep doing this bent arm stuff that is just going to keep you love tapping balls...

The main point is that hard shots from pros can push rubbers to limits that they want something that responds well under those circumstances. I remember a high level player telling me that he would test rubbers by putting then through a heavy serve, heavy push, heavy opener and countertopspin...

Yes, it is very logical, but beyond a certain point, it is hard to let people open and play defence. Even at the 2000 level, the loops are getting powerful enough that you can't let someone get in the opener on their terms. I have no problem believing that if I loop to Ma Long, I have a chance...

It is the best way of practicing to straighten the arm on easy balls and it is what improved my third ball when people didn't return my serves properly. Look at this one here. youtu.be/kkYEwe0xjxE?t=653 If you learn to straighten your arm on easy balls, the potential you have on killing the...

This post is like an Archo submission but since you are Carl not Archo, I have to ask - what did MC tell you?

I agree. The reason I made this point is because the way you play becomes a habit and you have to be careful about building your game around something that you have to change when you get better. That said there are some good players who take pride in their long serves - Jimmy Butler comes to...

There are options yes, but they all prey on opponent's technical weaknesses and footwork - once an opponent knows how to defend his elbow and has good technique, all these things become parlor tricks, the exception being the fast topspin/nospin serve and stepping back, though some players know...

Would be interesting to see what you call really fast. I spoke to Brett about this since he is an incredible server and he said that World Class players will loop anything that comes off the table anywhere, including the snake serve, so you could fool them once but once they had seen it, their...

I agree with this. The forehand footwork thing is a common problem with strong backhand players (even I have it) and it takes significant forehand footwork coaching in cross step footwork to address it. The real problem I see for you is that Ben has large strokes so he is going to be able to...

IT's very common for even 1900-2000 players who have not gotten the memo to fall into this trap that big leads are insurmountable. But at that level, people have put in enough hours into training that you can't just wait for them to miss, especially the players who thrive on consistent defense...

I would prefer either what you currently use or the ones you proposed. I know people who use that and they are mostly trying to save money - it is soft but playable on FH. IMO, it is better to play with something that at least one good player you are familiar with and like their style plays...

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